Melinda Church co-leads the strategic communications practice of Grenzebach Glier and Associates. She partners with clients to accelerate their mission-driven goals, grow their philanthropic support, and elevate their reputation. Her work includes philanthropic priority-setting; case and proposal development; organizational structures, development, and planning; issue mitigation; and new leader coaching; among other activities.

Her 25 years of experience in communications and marketing includes senior leadership roles at the University of Virginia and The Ohio State University, among other colleges and universities. At U.Va., she worked for President John Casteen during public higher education's first billion-dollar campaign. Much of her work there involved institutional and executive positioning, speech writing, and case and proposal writing. At Ohio State, she served as vice president of university communications and marketing and as vice president of advancement integration and communications. Church also served in philanthropic and alumni communications roles at Washington and Lee University and Virginia Military Institute.

Prior to her work in higher education, Church was a managing editor of Indiana Business magazine. She has edited and designed several academic and general-audience books. She is an award-winning writer, artist, designer and silversmith.

Church holds a master's degree in journalism from Indiana University and a bachelor's degree in English (creative writing) from the University of Washington.